Introfor this evaluation we purchased a pair of 3 5 inch 2tb 7200 rpm seagate firecuda st2000dx002 gaming solid state hybrid drives sshd for 100 each to replace our two 70 each 2tb toshiba 7200 rpm hard disk drives hdd.
Hybrid drive vs ssd gaming.
Solid state hybrid drives sshd entered the market a few years ago with seagate being the sole provider of 2 5 inch form factor sshds for laptop computers.
Everything on a solid state drive will be as fast as the small cache portion of a hybrid drive.
The expansion of sshd is the solid state hybrid drive.
Ssds don t deliver higher framerates there are a lot of performance advantages of choosing an ssd over a traditional mechanical hard drive.
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The data writing and transferring speed is 100mb per second which is higher than hdd but lower than the ssd.
A single solid state drive or a solid state drive plus a mechanical hard drive in a desktop pc if you have room for both will outperform a hybrid drive.
Although there are no framerate performance differences between playing or benchmarking games on a hdd versus playing games on a ssd.
This uses the mechanism of both hdd and the ssd to store and processing the data.
What gaming benchmarks say.
Three years later toshiba and western digital entered the market both shipping 2 5 inch form factor.
Hybrid drive steps up for desktop gaming pc.
In the following test we compared a 240 gb seagate ssd device that was released in 2013 with a 2016 version 2 tb seagate.
Benchmark speed comparison.
The faster read and write times of an ssd help it load large files faster and also cut down on the boot times into both your operating system and the programs and applications on your computer.
Solid state hybrid drives blend conventional platter based hard drives and the new solid state drive technologies.